Madness

By Mary De Young

Subjects: Psychiatric Hospitals, Therapy, History, Treatment, Psychiatric hospitals, Mental Disorders, Mental disorders, Mental illness, Mental illness, treatment

Description: "This book exercises the sociological imagination to explore some questions in the history of madness, including why some behaviors are labeled mad; why they are labeled mad in one historical period and not another; why the label of mad is applied to some types of people; and by whom the label and its consequences are applied"--Provided by publisher.